This online offer is for You, the pregnant woman (or for you planning to get pregnant) who is looking for a new level of support during pregnancy, birth and postpartum, beyond the usual doula offerings. This offer has an all round, holistic approach focusing on you and your individual wishes and needs from a physical, mental and emotional perspective.
Whether this is your first, second or fourth pregnancy, whether you are preparing for a hospital, birth center - or home birth, I can be the support person you have been looking for.
Unlike most doula offerings, I can support you in relation to physical related issues and questions, specifically focused on pelvic - and pelvic floor health during pregnancy and after birth, on an evidence-based level. This offer will help to prepare your pelvic floor for a vaginal birth and teach you techniques on how to minimize the risk of tearing. We will cover breathing techniques, pelvic floor activation - and relaxation techniques, mobility excersices, yoni steaming, perinatal massage and much more. We will also focus on optimal pelvic and pelvic floor healing and restoring after birth and how you can support yourself during this vulnarable time, both during the imidiate postpartum as well as long-term.
We will cover how to maintain a strong and mobile body during pregnancy in preparation for birth with relevant strength and mobility excersices to help minimize the risk of severe pelvic girdle pain (PGP). If you are experiencing pains and aches (up to 80% of pregnant women experience some kind of PGP during pregancny). I will help inform and guide you on things to avoid/implement to help support your body during this time of change. Your body and mind will be going through a lot of changes, there will be ups and downs during this time, and that is completely normal. Having someone to guide and reassure you can make a big difference to your experience.
This offer also focuses on you and your birth partner as a team and how to set you up to have a successful pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience. You will meet with me for 1:1 birth preparation meetings as well as monthly check-ins to make sure you feel informed of your options and choices, to teach you about the physiology of birth and the importance behind it and on how to steer away from medical interventions, if that’s what you desire. I will be there to calm and reassure and to answer any questions that come up along the way.
The birth preparations will include tools and techinques on how to help you and your birth partner through labour and birth, as well as setting you up for a successful postpartum. They will cover breathing techniques, labouring positions, partner work and how to prepare your birth partner to be your absolute best support person, as well as preparing for the unexpected.
But it doesn’t stop at birth, the 1:1 meetings will also cover the first few hours after birth and answer questions such as - what is an optimal chord clamping? What can be expected after the baby is born? What is the golden hour? And much more. We will talk about and prepare your body, mind and soul for the time after birth, the most imidiate postpartum, as well as the first year of mortherhood.
Having worked with women for several years, I know there’s is no “one size fits all” concept when it comes to preparing body and mind for the biggest transition and re-birth in a womans life. Going through pregnancy, birth and the time following, is truly a transformational journey on so many levels. Birth is a sacred and beautiful event and it is an something to look forward to, not fear. It is an experience you will remember for the rest of your life, so lets prepare you for it! You deserve that extra personal care and support during this time, set yourself up to have the birth experience you envision for yourself. Claim your own birth.